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Are ants killed when they refuse to work?
This doesn’t happen because every ant has the exact same “mindset.” It’s in their nature to keep a highly structured labor colony. It’s not in ours.
Ants could certainly be defined as socialists of a type, although necessarily in a decentralized manner. No one thinks that socialism, if people are willing to listen to their leaders, is impossible, merely that it cannot create prosperity… So if you want men to live like ants, then go straight ahead.
They’re essentially programmed biological machines that behave a certain way. Using ant social dynamics to lend credence to communism is desperate and feeble-minded at best. It’s painfully obvious from the annals of history that communism, with actual people, is dangerous, immoral, and foolish.
Don’t see ants lining up for iphones do you?
It’s excellent propaganda tho.
Good propaganda makes your point immediately understood and placed in a positive light, and makes seeing through the propaganda to how the comparison is not apt at all difficult and laborious.
Most people also are not systematic thinkers. This is a big problem libertarians face trying to implement the education-means of moving society towards libertarianism. Most libertarians probably became libertarian at least in some part because of systematically applying the principle of liberty to all aspects of political life and following the conclusion where it irrevocably led.
The trick of the leftist liberal mindset is to discount any sort of deep thinking at all. Liberals create policy and consensus based on the first impulse. It’s all about the first impulse. Murder on the news? Need to ban guns. Wages down? Raise the minimum wage.
We’ll never overcome those thought habits by education. And what’s worse, even negative results of policies does not cause them to question the original policy. Test scores down? Need to raise taxes and give more money to schools!
We may have solved the great political question of what political theory is best suited for man, but we have a long way to go on the sociological question of how to produce change. The socialists are actually way ahead of us on this one, having thought about how to produce change for a long time. Some of their findings are interesting at least.